A romance scam involves a perpetrator building a fraudulent, often romantic relationship with an online victim. This leads to the perpetrator playing to the emotions of their victim in hopes of extorting money, gifts, or personal information....

Double-check that spam filter: The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is alerting consumers to the first phishing e-mail it says stemmed from a massive data breach earlier this month (WalletPop April 8).

E-mail marketing firm Epsilon reported the ...

Phishing, vishing and smishing are all ways for a thief to use current technology to get you personal account information to use for fraudulent purposes.

Phishing

This is a scam that uses email or pop-up messages to trick you into disclosin...